Diego Carrillo of Mendoza and pickl – Wikipedia
Diego Carrillo de Mendoza and Pimentel , Marqués de Gélves and Count of Priego (* Before 1590 in Valladolid, Aragón, Spain, † 1631 in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish colonial administrator who served as a vice -king of Aragón and Neuspania.
Origin and career in Europe [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Diego Carrillo de Mendoza came from a noble family and came to the Army Service of the Spanish crown at a young age, where he quickly made a career.
In 1610 King Philipp III called him. To the vice king in the Kingdom of Aragón, which has been ruled by Viceroys of the Spanish crown since 1485.
He served until 1621, when he was named Viceroy of Neuspania by the new King Philipp IV.
Time of term as a vice -king of Neuspania [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Carrillo de Mendoza reached the port of Veracruz on September 21, 1621 and took responsibility for the Vice Kingdom from that day, since his predecessor Diego Fernández de Córdoba was already on his way to his next post in Peru. The ceremonial inauguration took place on April 8, 1622 in Mexico City.
The new vice -king found the country in a rather desolate status; After a missed, the poor in particular threatened to famine. Carrillo had 10,000 bushels bust up and distributed to the arms. He turned against the monopoly of the grain dealers, which drove the prices up and made such powerful enemies.
He also acted against the widespread pathession of street robbers by having the main paths guarded by armed people and had caught road robbers were rigoros.
At his proposal, the local doctor Cristóbal Hidalgo y Bandaval gave lectures in surgery at the Universidad de México.
For cost reasons, he ordered the work on the huehuetoca drainage system and tore the dike that an inflow of the Cuautitlán River prevented. There were severe floods in the next rainy season, which brought numerous dead and injured and caused considerable damage.
Conflict with the archbishop [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
With the Archbishop of Mexico City, Juan Pérez de la Serna, Carrillo got into a serious conflict. The vice king accused bishop of bribery and condemned his trading activities.
When the vice king accused a high official who had obtained grain at starvation, he fled into a monastery. Carrillo had the monastery changed, but the archbishop insisted on the right of church asylum and, excommunicated, without further ado the responsible judge and the executive officials. The vice king advised in his palace on January 11, 1624 with the Listeners Mexico’s Real Audiencia, the bishop appeared when it appeared in a litter at the top of a crowd of crowds on the palace. Viceroy Carrillo called him to take back the excommunication of the officials, whereupon the Archbishop of the Viceroy and the Listeners exsouchuniating.
Carrillo ordered to capture the archbishop and guard back to Spain. This arrest finally triggered turmoil. A mob stormed the palace of the vice king and set it on fire. The archbishop meanwhile managed to escape and he declared the vice king off. Before the outraged crowd, this was secretly with some faithful to the church San Francisco fled. From there he came to Veracruz and shipped back to Spain to justify himself in front of King Philipp IV. The king made a mixed verdict by approving some of the measures of Carrillos and disapproving others.
Archbishop Pérez de la Serna initially stayed in office in Mexico; But after the next vice king arrived, he was ordered back to Europe, where he received the diocese of Zamora.
Carrillo died in Spain in 1631.
Recent Comments